Word: alumni
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...effect on the alumni is likely to be similar, but from a more personal standpoint. While it was a matter of chance whether or not the average alumnus was able to get his precious pasteboard, he was sport enough to be a good loser when necessary. But now that there has been added to this a financial question, he may feel that his sporting chance has been supplanted by a plutocratic rule. His loyalty will not waver, but he may feel hurt that his chance to cheer for, fight for, and support his team has been put on a money...
...reached the height of front page avidity, and drew serious comments from high college authorities. In the face of this throat to amateurism in sports, the athletic committees of Harvard, Princeton, and Yale have thrown caution to the four winds and have openly assailed the pocketbooks of their respective alumni. How will this action effect public opinion as regards professionalism in athletics? What will be the effect on the alumni...
...list of Regional Chairmen who will have charge of the newly-established Harvard Fund in various districts in the United States and abroad has been announced by the Harvard Fund Council. Among the more prominent men on the list who are already otherwise engaged in alumni work are C. C. Stillman '98 of New York City, Director of the Harvard Alumni Association, who has recently endowed the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry at Harvard; and Governor Franklin S. Billings '85, of Vermont, President of the New England Federation of Harvard Clubs, and a Vice-President of the Associated Harvard...
Pending the completion of plans which at some future date may mean the establishment of a vocational office having some connection with the graduate school and alumni employment offices, the work which for the last two years has been carried on by the Committee on Choice of Vocations will be handled this year through the Dean's office. Dean Greenough has sent to every undergraduate who expects to get his degree this June a questionaire like that of last year asking about his plans after he leaves college...
...expected that in some cases the information secured from these questionaires will be used to enable them to meet prospective employers, although this office does not undertake to place students in permanent positions. In this connection, your attention is called to the Appointment Office of the Harvard Alumni Association at 50 State Street, Boston, which places many graduates permanently, and to the University Appointment Office, 11 University Hall, where men who wish to teach may be able to secure positions. The return of the questionaire is, of course, optional, but since the answers will be used for statistical purposes...